ReDesign Lives & Territories

Esta chamada para projetos nasce no contexto da reconfiguração do evento internacional Cultural and Creative Industries Days Brazil (CCIDB), que não foi possível realizar em presencialmente em Porto Alegre, no meado de 2024, por causa da grande enchente que atingiu o estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Diversas organizações elaboraram plataformas para convocaram designers com o projeto para aiudar a população local no enfrentamento da tragedia, à distância, mas em tempo real. Nessa direção, ReDesign Lives & Territories convidou os designers a elaborar propostas conceituais, para participar do debate que havia se aberto a respeito da mudança climática e de suas consequência, de forma a prospectar cenários de resiliência climática e regeneração socioambiental. Segue o texto da chamada e uma seleção dos projetos apresentados.

Fotos de capa:
Marina Chiapinotto, 2024, ensaio Margem de lama (cortesia da autora, https://fotodoc.com.br/portfolio/margem-de-lama/).

Call for Proposals ReDesign Lives & Territories 

The Scientific and Organization Committee of the Cultural and Creative Industries Days Brazil invites the community of creatives of Brazil, Colombia, Italy, and all countries that are part of the Latin Network of the Development of Design as a Process for a new call for proposals. The overall objective of this call is to invite this broad community to think of ideas and projects that can inspire the reconstruction of the city of Porto Alegre and the different territories that compose it, which were widely hit by the floods of early May this year. The scenario of destruction in which not only Porto Alegre is today, but also the entire state of Rio Grande do Sul, is what inspires this goal, especially because it is aligned with the perspectives already indicated in the Call for Abstracts, such as:

1. Principles and theories of ecological integration of human and non-human systems led by creativity as a motor of transformation;
2. Practical experiments that improve human ability to innovate;
3. Future scenarios based on the desire to discover and update alternative models of interaction between art, science, technologies, design, and communication in all dimensions of life, interacting with society.

In this sense, this new call for proposals (re)directs these perspectives to the constitution of a direct connection to logic to enhance the transformation of the different dimensions that occur, cross, and perform in the city of Porto Alegre and the different territories that compose it.

It is from these elements and this context that we propose this new call, especially because we understand that creativity is the most important asset to think and (re)project preferable and possible futures for the entire territory of Porto Alegre and/or for the different affected territories that make up the city – such as the islands, neighborhoods that constitute the Fourth District, Historic Center, Sarandi, among others.

From this perspective, we understand the call as an opportunity to re-signify the relationships between the different experiences and socialities possible in the various territories and experiences, affected in various ways. Based on the understanding that territories are also imaginary – and that the imaginary is a territory in itself – we open this call under the title ReDesign Lives & Territories.

This proposals call is open above all to contributions that connect ideas, described in a brief text of up to 1000 characters, and graphic materializations of them. These materializations can be in sketches, schemes, infographics, flowcharts, among other formats of graphic facilitation of ideas, concepts, and themes. The perspective of these materializations is to understand the applicability of a concept and/or theme, which synthesizes the ideas of possible and preferable futures conceived by the creative and/or creative group, either for some specific territory of the city and/or for the whole city. The descriptive text should be written in the specific space on the open form for the call, accessible below this text.

In this same form, it is possible to upload the file with the graphic contributions, which must make up a single PDF less than or equal to 30 megabytes.

The contributions sent will be analyzed and validated by the CCIDB Scientific Committee. The chosen proposals will be listed on this site for the proponents to identify themselves and thus be able to present and discuss their contributions at a specific time of the event programming.